PLUS: AI brain breakthroughs, ping-pong bots, AI-only podcasts, and Stability’s sound leap
PLUS: Replit’s big raise, a $2B note from Nebius, and the Spotify founders’ AI comeback
PLUS: Claude gets agentic, Roblox launches reels, OpenAI builds LinkedIn rival
PLUS: Claude becomes an agent, Chrome becomes your assistant, ALS patients regain motion
PLUS: Perplexity’s $42.5M truce, Jetson Thor lands, Meta goes artistic
PLUS: China drops a real AI agent, Meta freezes hiring, and Anthropic hits campus
PLUS: Meta’s AR glasses just got real, and Alibaba’s new image editor is wild
PLUS: Apple delays Siri’s voice takeover, and Perplexity thinks it is Google Chrome now.
PLUS: Vine’s AI remaster, AI turns your doodle into a game, Character.ai launches a social feed of fictional chats, and Google’s bot finds 20 zero-days
PLUS: Musk & Altman trade courtroom jabs, Amazon pays the NYT $20 M for AI fuel, Alibaba’s coder bot sparks spy fears, and Bezos bankrolls an AI-made sitcom factory
PLUS: China drops a GPT-4 rival, Big Tech preps a $250 B AI splurge, and Beijing calls for one world, one algorithm
PLUS: Alibaba open-sources a GPT-4 rival, MIT lets anyone teach a bot by hand, and Bollywood rewrites a tragic romance with AI
